SHUFAN ZHANGPORTFOLIO

B.A. IN ARCHITECTURECLASS OF 2016

UC BERKELEYshufanzhang@berkeley.edu

SHUFAN ZHANGUC Berkeley B.A. in Architecture (Minor in Sustainable Design) | Class of 2016

DESIGN EXPERIENCEThe Design Partnership, Oakland, CAIntern, June 2015 - August 2015• Participated in several healthcare and justice projects. Work included editing cover

sheets, drawing details in AutoCad, producing drawing sets for clients, etc.• Worked on the construction documents for Veterans Affairs San Francisco Projects.

Drew deduct alternate plan, signage plan and signage details in Revit.

Jiangxi Province Architectural Design and Research Institute, Nanchang, ChinaIntern, June 2014 - August 2014• Built the SketchUp model for the initial planning for a mix-use district. Proposed facade

style and cultural elements. • Rendered digital models through Lumion after getting familiar with the software for less

than two days. Processed rendered images through Photoshop.

Daily Californian, Berkeley, CAIllustrator, September 2014 - Present• Created illustrations for op-eds in accordance to the fast-pace newspaper production;

followed the intense schedule that gave less than twenty-four hours between assignment release and submission deadline. Multi-media techniques were qpplied.

Innovative Design, Berkeley, CADesigner, February 2014 - May 2014• Designed flyers and logos for on-campus organizations using Illustrator and Indesign.

RESEARCH PRACTICEEthnography Project - Redesign Proposal for Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine Col-lege (September to December, 2014)• The project sought to combine the specific architectural qualities of an acupuncture

clinic with social and cultural contexts. Through the semester-long work that involved with interview, research and redesign, the abilities of exploring new fields and combining various knowledge with architectural design were cultivated.

City Planning Project - Renovation of the Crescent Lawn (Febrary to May, 2014)• The planning project integrated an outdoor landscape with broader cultural and econom-

ic context in Downtown Berkeley. It involved with research on offical planning documents as well as a series of methodology, including field observation, data analysis, precedent research, etc. Multi-media presentation technique in a short video form was applied.

Sustainability Redesign Proposal– Extensive Green Roof on Apartment Building (March, 2015)• The 10-page term paper examined green roof practice on a typical apartment building,

in the form of a redesign proposal over a typical apartment rooftop. The paper not only increased the knowledge of green roof system, but also led to a better understanding of sustainable design in architectural practice.

SKILLSSoftware: Proficient in Rhinoceros, AutoCad, SketchUp, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Microsoft OfficeExperienced in Revit, Lumion, Ecotect, SAP 2000

Multilingual:Native in Madarin Chinese; basic speaking, reading and writing skills in Spanish

Richmond RiveterSept -Dec 2015P6 - 11

Stair SequenceOct 2014P12 - 15

Interlocking LibraryNov - Dec 2014P16 - 19

Good FoodApril - May 2015P20 - 25

Case StudiesP27

Conceptual CutP26

Intern works and Graphic DesignP28 - 29

Art WorksP30

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FORD POINT NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN:RICHMOND RIVETERSeptember - December 2015 (Fourth Year)Course: ARCH 100C: James R. Boyce Affordable Housing Competition StudioInstructor: Christopher Calott, Carol Galante

This was an interdisceiplinary studio in which three architecture undergradu-ates and three city planning graduates team up to propose a scheme for an affordable housing project. The site should be located in Richmond, a mid-size city in the Bay Area with a diverse population and impressive industrial history. The work scope for each team include site selection, master planning, schemet-ic design and program financing.

Our team, BOLD+D, selected a 6-acre site at the scenic Ford Point at Richmond waterfront. The Ford Point Neighborhood is a 57-acre water- front community located within the South Richmond Priority Development Area. Home to the revitalized Ford Assembly Plant and in close proximity to the Kaiser Shipyards, Ford Point harks back to the Ford assembly line era and today functions as an employment and community gathering space. THE RIVETER at Ford Point will become the first residential addition to the forthcoming high-intensity mixed-use activity center set forth in the Richmond 2030 General Plan. The Riveter will include a total of 289 market-rate and affordable apartments and for-sale condominiums.

The Ford Point Neighborhood Plan will attract pioneers looking to be a part of exciting period of Rich- mond’s growth. Ford Point offers forward-thinking rent-ers, homeowners, and investors an opportunity to help the neighborhood reach its full potential and to have a hand in transforming the peninsula into a vi- brant and walkable mixed-use destination, which both attracts visitors from all over the region and offers all the amenities needed to support a thriving residential community.

MY WORK:MASTER PLANNINGSCHEMATIC DESIGNSITE DIAGRAMSRENDERED VIEWSFLOOR PLANSSECTION/ELEVATIONS

GOAL 1Add to Richmond’s existing stock of high-quality, affordable housing in a site plan that compliments the scale of the 1,000 foot-long Ford Assembly Building.

GOAL 2Engage in genuine placemaking while respecting and reimag-ining Ford Point’s industrial past and impressive achievements

GOAL 3Strengthen access to public transportation, construct car- and pedestrian-friendly boulevards, and support the creation of one of the nation’s first developments oriented towards fer-ry transport.

GOAL 4Maintain existing manufacturing space and plan for the expan-sion of light industrial business space to create technical and manufacturing employment opportunities near housing.

GOAL 5Create bold transition zones between residential, public open space, retail, and industrial land uses to effectively support the mixed-use, high-density vision for the site per the 2030 General Plan.

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THE HOMEFRONT

PHASE I166 MARKET-RATE APARTMENTSJUNIOR 1 BEDROOM - 3 BEDROOM UNITS$2,200 - $3,900/MONTH

ROSIE

PHASE I37 LARGE FAMILY AFFORDABLE APARTMENTS2 BEDROOM & 3 BEDROOM UNITS100% UNITS @ 50$ AMI

THE RED OAK

PHASE III86 MARKET-RATE CONDOS2 BEDROOM & 3 BEDROOM UNITS$700,000 - $725,000

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Driven to create a pleasant living place in the underutilized Ford Point neigh-borhood, the design of the Riveter, and the Rosie Project in particular, seeks to incorporate a network of public greenways and spaces that promote walk-ability and provide safety and access to the waterfront.

The site is divided into two parts: a central green space—of which three sides are surrounded by residence blocks—and a public waterfront park abutting family town housing. site. Using the streetscape as a means to access the blocks, the design incorporates methods of access which provide a balance of public and private spaces. The public spaces serve as an urban oasis for people to play, picnic, and rest. It is connected with rest of the site by green liv-ing alleys that strategically break up the building mass and promote walkability for the users. Vertically it also corresponds to the voids in the building and the roof garden at the top. Therefore, the central green space, the sidewalk

greenery, the building voids and the roof garden together compose an inte-grated urban landscape system inside the larger green network of Richmond waterfront.

The volume of the building corresponds to the grand scale of the neighbor-ing Craneway Pavilion and Ford Assembly Plant. The large U-shaped mass is broken down by three translucent circulation cores that provide communal gathering spaces and views to the network of greenscapes. On the residential floors of the Homefront and Rosie apartments, voids are introduced on different levels to create visual access to the waterfront and central plaza. On the northern portion of the building, lightwell voids puncture the building to introduce sunlight into the building groins which are integrated with two hori-zontal voids that provide communal spaces for refuge and gathering.

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STAIR SEQUENCESep - October 2014 (Third Year)

Course: ARCH 100A: Fundementals of Architectural DesignInstructor: Sean Canty

This is an exploration of the objectivity of architectural space. Giv-en the steep yet dynamic topographic context of San Francisco, the project seeks to create a public stair that not only circulates two streets in different heights, but more importantly, serve as a public space for gathering.

The site is a narrow lot between O’Farrell Street and Olive Street in San Francisco. As the faundemental requirement, the stair must be created in the form of substraction from a 90’ X 15’ X 36’ box. The box would be a solid volume, and the stair would be the void space inside it. The stair should accommodate two small contemplative viewing spots, one gathering area and access to the neighboring rooftop.

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The project starts with an exercise called Double Negative. The exercise views the design of space as a complementary and substrctive process starting from the inside rather than outside. The product is a three dimensnional spatial construct where two substractive volumes intersect side a box to produce a third condition.

I want to investigate the relationship between the inside and the outside of the box through a diagrammatic approach. I use two orthogonally-cut voids intertwined with each other to create a vibrant void space. The two voids start from the outside of the box, move paralle, collide, converge, diverge and finally dissolve into the exterior. When the voids travel through the different faces of the box, the substractive space extends to the outside and the volume is activated through the two flowing voids.

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Continuing the idea of using two moving voids to activate space, I translate the voids into two trajectories starting from the two sides of the box. The two trajectories are parallel at first, then meet at viewing spaces, and finally either lead to the gath-ering space at top or leave the void from the threshold at the other side. Through the divergence and convergence of two trajectories, the interior and exterior spaces become dynamic, and the stair itself becomes a journey diving into and routing around the volume.

As my initial attempt to investigate the objectivity of architecture, I define the stair as a sequence of movement in both horizontal and vertical directions. The two thresholds are supposed to connect one single route, but they can also be the starting of two different paths that join at certain places. This corresponds to the idea of stair as a public space that connects people from different directions.

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Continuing with the spatial promise developed from Double Nega-tive and Stair Sequence, the final project in this sequence moves from pure objectivity to combination of objectivity and subjectivity.The project uses the same site and subtractive method as Stair Sequence, and the program is a library with emphasis on social and individual space, sequence and vertical circulation, negative and poche program space. The form of the building still remains purely subtractive manner, while more elements need to be con-sidered such as program and functionality.

With the spatial strategy developed in the sequence, I reexamine the nature of the two voids. The two voids turn direction, inter-twine and depart. On the other hand, the two voids are also in-terlocking with spaces activiated surrounding them. I duplicate the original set of voids, rotate them combine them together. the four voids become a system in which the flowing parts are circu-lation routes and the endings are major programs.

I set the theme for my library to the interlock of dynamic and stat-ic spaces. Dynamic spaces are places where people learn from each other through conversation, and static spaces are places where people learn from books through reading. The conceptu-ally poche spaces became office spaces or special storage that are either quiet or less accessible to the public.

One of my goals in the design is to explore the extent to which subjectivity can be addressed with diagrammatic and controled objectivity. The objective face of architecture is fixed once con-structed, while the subjective face is not, which in turn can shape the objectivity face. The dynamic and static saces are located in different spots, while they are organized by the four voids that in-teract coherently. Thus the void and poche areas together gener-ate a dynamic and efficient space for people to search, read and meet. The double-height spaces produced by voids above also enhance the interlocking feature of public and private spaces by connecting the different programs vertically.

INTERLOCKING LIBRARYNovember - December 2014 (Third Year)Course: ARCH 100A: Fundementals of Architectural DesignInstructor: Sean Canty

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This is an advanced investigation on the relatinoship between subjectivity and objectivity of ar-chitecture. GOOD FOOD is a conjunction of multiple programs centered around a common set of interests, including food awareness and education, challenging the norms of mass food pro-duction, advancing food research, slow food, promoting and supporting urban farming and food production, and the celebration of good, healthy, local food. The programmatic premise of the project is intentionally open-ended, and embodied the belief that urban life provided a continually shifting set of needs, and continually evolving infrastructure which support those needs.

There are three primary groups that ‘work’ in the building on a daily basis. One group is a food

research institute, whose work focuses on the intersection of technology and food production. The institute shares a teaching/research garden with another primary work group in the build-ing, a loose coalition of local food organizations and activists that shared an involvement in ‘the good food movement’. As part of their educational mission, the coalition hosts local student field trips and other activities that require access to both the classrooms and garden. In association and connection with the groups above, a food hall is located on the ground floor that served as a multi-use apace, capable of hosting variegated events. The other form of work that took place in the building is the actual production of food. The commissary kitchens were available to rent by food-related entrepreneurs such as food start-ups and small-scale local producers.

GOOD FOODApril - May 2015 (Third Year)ARCH 100B: Fundementals of Architectural DesignInstructor: William DeNapoli

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I define my GOOD FOOD as a significant node in the City of San Francisco. It is not only a point that resides on the southern part of the city, but more importantly, it becomes a interface that connects users of the building and the rest city. In this way, GOOD FOOD seeks to interpret the social role of food, a medium that brings people to the space and guides them to embrace larger themes related to food. In order to relate formal subjectivity to the spirit of the building, I investigate the site neighborhood, and marked several public programs around the site. They included re-tailing businesses, small restaurants, public storage, etc. I regard the project as the access to the larger urban area, and thus I connect the nearby public spaces with lines, creating three linear voids that cut through the lot. These voids become thresholds that provided spatial and physical access from the outside spaces to the building. Moreover, they derive several spaces that contained visual access to the broader context and to celebrate the urban fabric.

The program settings also corresponds to the theme of connection. Similar with the architectural form that expresses porosity to the outside world, the arrangement of interior space also indicated interconnectedness among different uses. Kitchens, for instance, became a significant feature that displayed the process of food production, and were located around the food center on the first level and gallery on the second level with convenient access. The recessed slits that cut through the building and the terrace on the second floor became important view points that connected the building with the nearby public buildings.

CONCEPTUAL PREMISE

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floor slabs public vs. private

glazing vs. skin circulation double-height spaces

opaque wall vs. skin

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This project is a cut for a hypothetical building which described a spa-tial, structural and performantive premise for the building. The cut ex-amined how the essential characteristics, systems, qualities and con-ditions of a building could reside in a representative cut of the building at its perimeter. The cut entailed one wall section through a corner condition of the building, with the corresponding partial elevation that was being cut, and the elevation that would then turned the corner.

My conceptual cut saught to integrate formal strategy with building performance through an imaginative skin system. What I wanted to explore was the potential of a facade that introduces natural light and provides greenery. The entire facade as well as the skin modules were tilted to receive more sunlight during winter and reduce over-heating in sumer. Plant panels were located at the top of the build-ing as an extension of the green roof system. The greenery system served to collect rainwater and produce oxygen.

CONCEPTUAL CUTFebrary 2015 (Third Year)

ARCH 100B: Fundementals of Architectural DesignInstructor: William DeNapoli

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CASE STUDY: EAMES HOUSEOctober 2013 (Second Year)Course: ED 11B: Introduction to Design

CASE STUDY: PLASENCIA AUDITORIUMFebrary 2015 (Third Year)Course: ARCH 100B: Fundementals of Architectural Design

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INTERN WORKSMay - August 2015The Design Partnership, Oakland, CA

VETERANS’AFFAIRS SAN FRANCISCODeduct Alternate Plan

NORTH COUNTY SONOMA COUNTY DETENTION FACILITYWork Range Plan

VETERANS’AFFAIRS SAN FRANCISCOSignage Plan

UCSF HYBRID OPERATION ROOM 26Modification Plan

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SHUFAN ZHANGB.A. IN ARCHITECTURE

CLASS OF 2016UC BERKELEY

shufanzhang@berkeley.edu